Americans are spending over $300 billion a year on prescription drugs.

[the other mike]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

 

[MarathonMike]

I've said it before, the drug industry, the food industry, and the medical industry need Americans to be unhealthy. It is up to you to make the right choices, otherwise get ready for a life of dependency and giving up your freedoms.

 

[Blackrook]

More hate mongering by the Democrats.

 

[the other mike]

More hate mongering by the Democrats.

Ralph Nader is Democrat.

 

[flacaltenn]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

 

[flacaltenn]

More hate mongering by the Democrats.

Ralph Nader is Democrat.

Yeah -- that's the point.. Dems HATE the pharma industry, but we COULD be the world's leaders if pharma if govt doesn't grandstand for votes and attention.. It's a convenient capitalists whipping boy for the new Dem Socialists that want govt committees running healthcare when they can't put up an "insurance market" website for O-Care for less than $1Bill and do it ON TIME and on budget...

Pharma has reduced the need for medical interventions. That's a fact.. And it's only the SUCCESS of the pharma industry to create longer living Baby Boomers that makes that number you're all spazzed out about sound high...

 

[Crepitus]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

From a Canadian pharmacy I pay $80 for a 6 month supply. Same drug, no fancy packaging.

That's $160 a year vs $6000 a year.

Admittedly I wouldn't pay the full $6000 a year, I'd hit my pharmacy deductable in 2 months and only pay 20% afterwards, but I still save almost $2000 by not turning it into insurance and buying from Canada.

Someone explain that to me.

 

[flacaltenn]

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

You have no drug coverage? Because I was on Advair for 30 days and I paid less than $30...

If you DON'T have drug coverage -- go to GoodRX.com.. Really works. No applications.. Those folks have figured out what the REAL pricing is... What the pharmacy ASKS for without any group coverage -- virtually NOBODY ever has to pay.. The ASKING price is irrelevant..

I'll go look up the GoodRx price for Advair... Probably as good as my insurance discount was...

Folks like that are heroes.. They work FASTER, BETTER and more efficiently than ANYTHING the mental midgets in DC can do.....

 

[flacaltenn]

Well it's not as good as my insurance discount. But it ain't $500/month. . Sometimes yes -- sometimes no...
Also became a generic in the past couple years..



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[fncceo]

In the same year, American women (and men) spent $600 Billion on cosmetics.

$700 Billion of movies and entertainment

$83 Billion on watches and jewelry

$80 Billion on cigarettes

$50 Billion on liquor and wine

 

[elektra]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

From a Canadian pharmacy I pay $80 for a 6 month supply. Same drug, no fancy packaging.

That's $160 a year vs $6000 a year.

Admittedly I wouldn't pay the full $6000 a year, I'd hit my pharmacy deductable in 2 months and only pay 20% afterwards, but I still save almost $2000 by not turning it into insurance and buying from Canada.

Someone explain that to me.

Canada, the Canadian government collects extremely high taxes from everyone. The Canadian government then buys drugs in bulk. Not a private market. The cost is hidden cause it comes out of your pocket your entire life. As a tax.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

2 years ago i gotta nasty bug during thanksgiving ...it was going around
First time i bought prescription antibiotics in i dont know how long
They were $108.00 ...I SAID WHAT

here my insurance ...$5.00

half the stuff people takes is unnecessary ...every other commercial on tv are pills for boomers ..i always love waiting to hear the side effects ...

 

[Dragonlady]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

Idiot men at their finest. "Nobody needs medical insurance before age 60". Women need a LOT of medical care before age 60. Because WE HAVE BABIES. Children have a lot of medical care because there are childhood illnesses. Birth control costs $300 per year.

Children come home from school with every disease known to man. FAMILIES spend far more than $1000 per year on prescription medications.

If conservatives didn't lie, they'd have nothing to say. Birth control costs $300 per year. One of my asthma puffers costs $100, and that's a Canadian price.

 

[Crepitus]

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

You have no drug coverage? Because I was on Advair for 30 days and I paid less than $30...

If you DON'T have drug coverage -- go to GoodRX.com.. Really works. No applications.. Those folks have figured out what the REAL pricing is... What the pharmacy ASKS for without any group coverage -- virtually NOBODY ever has to pay.. The ASKING price is irrelevant..

I'll go look up the GoodRx price for Advair... Probably as good as my insurance discount was...

Folks like that are heroes.. They work FASTER, BETTER and more efficiently than ANYTHING the mental midgets in DC can do.....

Ya gotta read the whole post kid.

 

[healthmyths]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

From a Canadian pharmacy I pay $80 for a 6 month supply. Same drug, no fancy packaging.

That's $160 a year vs $6000 a year.

Admittedly I wouldn't pay the full $6000 a year, I'd hit my pharmacy deductable in 2 months and only pay 20% afterwards, but I still save almost $2000 by not turning it into insurance and buying from Canada.

Someone explain that to me.

A) Advair is made in the USA in North Carolina by Glasko,Smith, Kline
The company is one of the region’s largest employers, with about 3,400 in the Triangle, including 2,600 in Research Triangle Park. Advair, an asthma inhaler, is manufactured at GSK’s Zebulon facility, which employs 800 people who assemble some of the company’s strongest selling drugs behind Advair. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article131540749.html
B) GSK spend $6 billion a year on R&D.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I would say keep lowering the high blood pressure bar until everyone is on medication......

 

[the other mike]

GSK spend $6 billion a year on R&D.

Big Pharma R&D = discovering new drugs with more side effects to make more profits.

 

[Crepitus]

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.

Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.

The biggest drug dealers in the U.S. operate legally. Their names are emblazoned in ads and promotions everywhere. Who hasn’t heard of Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis? Big Pharma revenues and profits have skyrocketed. In 2017, the U.S. consumers spent $333.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Ralph Nader: Big Pharma Must Be Stopped

At 85, Ralph Nader hasn't missed a beat in his courageous determination to
take on Big Pharma and other greedy corporate interests.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/10/confronting-pharma-greed-literally-killing-people-sanders-and-khanna-unveil-bills

Prescription drugs avoid a lot of expensive chronic disease. It's a pretty cheap price for life extension and quality of life it brings. And the NEED for hospitalization and nursing home care...

Most families under 60 don't SPEND $1000 a year on prescriptions. It's an aging population pushing up this number so you can whine about keeping codgers active, healthy and alive....

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

From a Canadian pharmacy I pay $80 for a 6 month supply. Same drug, no fancy packaging.

That's $160 a year vs $6000 a year.

Admittedly I wouldn't pay the full $6000 a year, I'd hit my pharmacy deductable in 2 months and only pay 20% afterwards, but I still save almost $2000 by not turning it into insurance and buying from Canada.

Someone explain that to me.

A) Advair is made in the USA in North Carolina by Glasko,Smith, Kline
The company is one of the region’s largest employers, with about 3,400 in the Triangle, including 2,600 in Research Triangle Park. Advair, an asthma inhaler, is manufactured at GSK’s Zebulon facility, which employs 800 people who assemble some of the company’s strongest selling drugs behind Advair. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article131540749.html
B) GSK spend $6 billion a year on R&D.

how nice for them.

Now if they'd only stop robbing us blind.....

 

[flacaltenn]

Idiot men at their finest. "Nobody needs medical insurance before age 60".

I know you're pretty devious in your tactics. So I'll just point you're arguing something THAT I NEVER SAID.. Have fun talking to yourself about stuff you imagine people saying...

What I said was simply families under 60 don't generally have the $1000 annual drug bill.. Maybe under 50... And you launched into a lecture on "women's needs"... Crazy....

 

[flacaltenn]

A family member has a prescription for advair. At the local pharmacy it's about $500.00 a month.

You have no drug coverage? Because I was on Advair for 30 days and I paid less than $30...

If you DON'T have drug coverage -- go to GoodRX.com.. Really works. No applications.. Those folks have figured out what the REAL pricing is... What the pharmacy ASKS for without any group coverage -- virtually NOBODY ever has to pay.. The ASKING price is irrelevant..

I'll go look up the GoodRx price for Advair... Probably as good as my insurance discount was...

Folks like that are heroes.. They work FASTER, BETTER and more efficiently than ANYTHING the mental midgets in DC can do.....

Ya gotta read the whole post kid.

You're right that I didn't UNDERSTAND the "hitting the deductible part".. Because unless this drug insurance is some really shady deal, EVEN IF you don't hit the deductible, EVERYTHING is discounted thru the insurance arrangements and negotiations with distributors/pharmacy.. There's virtually no drug insurance I know of where you pay RACK RATE for drugs until deductibles..

Sorry if I stepped on you story...

Still there are MANY companies like GoodRx that get you very CLOSE to insurer discounts without taking risks buying on-line from Canada.... They are heroes... And more folks need to know about them.. I've just recently seen their cards being offered in Doctor's offices... And that evil Walmart GETS pretty close to "canadian pricing" without insurance...

The free market DOES repair it's flaws pretty quickly... At least at lightning speed if you compare it to "Swamp fixes"...